Opposition to Obamacare has a soft underbelly

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Sep 16, 2013 at 5:06 PMSep 16, 2013 at 5:07 PM

Ed Kilgore EXAMINES the implications of recent polls on the issue of Obamacare:

As we drift towards an increasingly likely government shutdown (to be followed quite possibly by another debt default crisis generated by the same people) triggered by Republican demands that the Affordable Care Act be “defunded” or delayed, there’s fresh evidence in a new Pew survey that Obamacare obstructionists have crucially misunderstood public opinion.

Of the 53% who told Pew they “disapprove” of Obamacare, 27% say they want elected officials to “make it work as well as possible, while only 23% say their solons should “make it fail.” ...

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Ed Kilgore EXAMINES the implications of recent polls on the issue of Obamacare:

As we drift towards an increasingly likely government shutdown (to be followed quite possibly by another debt default crisis generated by the same people) triggered by Republican demands that the Affordable Care Act be “defunded” or delayed, there’s fresh evidence in a new Pew survey that Obamacare obstructionists have crucially misunderstood public opinion.

Of the 53% who told Pew they “disapprove” of Obamacare, 27% say they want elected officials to “make it work as well as possible, while only 23% say their solons should “make it fail.” ...